Forms of hosting services

A hosting solution entails keeping and/or sharing given content on a web server handled by a website hosting vendor. There are different groups of hosting services utilized for various purposes, so let's have a glance at them. In that way, you can decide what you want, on the basis of whether you desire to have a blog, email box accounts, or to share files with chums and associates.

- File hosting: a service supplied by various web hosts, which enables you to share enormous files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archived files, etc. This solution is also known as file storage, and its single purpose is to share files, since it does not support site uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either receive an accidentally generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to examine a register of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to view .html or .php web files in your browser. Free-of-cost file hosting plans are often supported by exhibiting adverts next to the download links, while a timer makes you wait for a given period of time to observe them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you have a paid file hosting package, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download right away, and also there is no limit as far as the download speed and the file size are concerned.

At the moment, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting corporations, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more modish "cloud hosting". This is a completely imprecise explanation of the literal definition of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting system would share the workload between autonomous sets of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to attending different webspace hosting services (mail, disk storage, stats, DNS, databases, web space hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting solution is just a brand of a disk storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: resembling file hosting; some firms provide a hosting service for images exclusively. This hosting type is suitable if you want to share an immense number of images with buddies or associates since the service is commonly free of cost. You will receive a random link for each and every picture or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file storage solution, .html and .php files are not supported, so the service cannot be used for web pages.

- E-mail hosting: a service dedicated to handling your mail addresses. Some distributors provide web space hosting services for web sites, but do not provide an email hosting service. If you want to open an e-mail address with your domain name but do not desire to possess a site, then the e-mail hosting service is what you need. You can set up email accounts and administer them, but there will be no hosting service for the domains. The email hosting solution includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP servers.

- Video hosting: this service permits you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to a particular video file, or you can embed the video file in your website that is hosted somewhere else. The benefit of using this approach in lieu of uploading the video file in a web hosting account is that the video clip generates a particular amount of CPU load, so with a few video files and several hundred site visitors, you may have difficulty with your web hosting quotas. Embedding the video file will enable you to have as many video files as you want to without hassling about system reserves.

- Web hosting: this is the solution that you require if you would like to own a site. To a certain degree, it incorporates all of the aforementioned hosting variants since, along with your web sites, you can also host images and files, you can create databases and e-mail address accounts, upload video clips, and so on. At Ark and Dove Designs, for example, you can explore web hosting and dedicated server hosting plans that permit you to have all of the aforementioned services in one single place. There may be limits based on the kind of hosting service that you've opted for - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your web site hosting plan may be better or worse juxtaposed to the customary email/file/video/image hosting packages that are purposed for specific content exclusively.